Appointment Patients Primary Care Utilities 
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context Optimizing continuity of care improves care quality, outcomes, and costs. Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Female patients had lower rates of NS, but higher rates of SDC.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: While hypertension is the most common chronic disease cared for during adult primary care visits, it is challenging to know which hypertensive patients have the highest risk of cardiovascular complications in the future. A total of 269,411 patients were used for model training.
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Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Objective: Evaluate the economic impact of receiving tele-legal services from Medicaid’s perspective with regard to a) fee- for service (FFS) total cost of care; b) FFS cost of primary care; c) utilization for FFS primary care; d) utilization for FFS and capitated behavioral health (BH) and BH emergency department encounters.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: Efforts to understand patient spirituality and implement spiritual history-taking tools have yet to consider the specific needs of refugee populations. For example, many Burmese immigrants and refugees have faced religious persecution, which may affect the process of spiritual history-taking for enhancing patient care.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: Diabetes management (DM) for patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) can be hindered by non-medical, health-related social needs. Objective: To describe how primary care clinics have considered social needs in DM, and identify opportunities to support primary care clinics.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes. Many proposed methods for measuring continuity utilize an aggregation of patient visits.
Barton Associates
MAY 8, 2025
Across the United States, tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortage s of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals. These professionals play a vital role in maintaining essential services and ensuring continuity of patient care.
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